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[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one a little bothered by Dumbledore? Not only with the fact he could end up in the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Incompetent Headmaster of All Time" (though I'm sure there's worse. :P), but also because...he just bugs me. I know JKR was trying to write him as the "flawed Yoda", so to speak (and to be fair, he's nowhere near Yoda. XD), but it's also how...preachy he gets. Towards Fudge, for example. You know, in Goblet of Fire, with, "You place too much importance on purity of blood, yadda yadda et cetera et cetera" -- which considering how he treated Tom Riddle and the Slytherins is...slightly hypocritical isn't it? Probably bad writing on JKR's part, though. :/

Anyways, sorry 'bout the rambling. Thoughts?

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[aikaterini.livejournal.com]

I wasn't being completely serious, since I don't know his personal views about it because I don't know him personally. I was just snarking on the fact that the treatment of Padmé's death in "Revenge of the Sith" is similar to the treatment of Merope's death in HBP. The medical droid tells Obi-Wan and Yoda that Padmé is physically fine, but that there's still something wrong with her. It turns out that she's "dying of a broken heart" and she "has lost the will to live."

In other words, she's not dying because Anakin Force-choked her or because of complications in childbirth, either of which would have been sufficient explanations. No, she's dying because she just can't bear to live anymore. She's so depressed that she gives up. Padmé effectively "chooses" to die. Like Merope, she just didn't have the "moral courage" to live for her children. Which, if one knows anything about women who die in childbirth, is utterly preposterous.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Well...it could also be complications from the Force Choking. :/ Dumb medical droids...

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

So you're saying she was mortally wounded by the Force Choke but managed to hold on long enough to pop out the kids against gravity, and her "losing the will to live " (and just how did the droid measure that, exactly?) is more like "losing the will to lift up a truck under which your child is trapped, having received an adrenalin boost or whatever the cause is that grants people extra strength in real life for this sort of thing"? (Didn't Luke mentioni n RotJ that his mother was strong with the Force, or am I misremembering?)

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Luke didn't really say anything about his mom being strong with the Force (although there *was* a deleted AOTC scene that implied Padme may be Force Sensitive...). Unfortunately. :(

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately?

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

I kind of meant about Padme not being strong with the Force. (But then again, being strong with the Force is no measure of awesomeness. :) *Embarrassed* It's mostly unfortunate that this idea didn't make it in; it would have been neat. :(

YMMV, naturally. :)